Best Sour Cherry Coffee Cake Recipes

YEASTED CHEESE-AND-SOUR-CHERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Sprinkle yeast and a pinch of granulated sugar over milk in a medium bowl. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk together remaining 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, the egg, and yolk. Whisk into yeast mixture.
• Combine flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt in the bowl of a mixer. Add egg mixture. Beat on low speed until almost fully combined, about 30 seconds. Switch to the dough-hook attachment. Add butter. Beat until smooth, soft, and slightly sticky, about 10 minutes.
• Butter a large bowl. Turn out dough onto a floured surface; knead a few times until smooth. Place in bowl, turn to coat, and cover with plastic wrap. Let stand in a warm place until doubled in volume, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Make the filling: Stir together cream cheese, egg yolk, and confectioners' sugar.
• Punch down dough. Transfer to a floured work surface. Let stand for 5 minutes. Roll out to an 18-inch square (about 1/8 inch thick). Brush edges with egg wash. Spread filling over dough. Top with cherries. Tightly roll dough like a jelly roll. Pinch seam to seal. Coil into a snail shape on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush top with egg wash.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Drape plastic wrap over dough. Let stand in a warm place until risen by half, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Remove plastic wrap. Cut six 1/2-inch slits into top. Bake, rotating halfway through, until golden, about 55 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees. Bake until deeply golden, 15 to 20 minutes more (cover with foil if top gets too dark). Transfer pan to a wire rack. Let cake cool.
• Make the glaze: Mix together confectioners' sugar and milk. Drizzle over cake. Let set for 5 minutes before serving.

GLAZED COFFEE CAKE WITH SOUR CHERRY PRESERVES

Steps:

• Put the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl and stir to combine. Add the butter and mix thoroughly with your fingers or a fork until all of the butter has been evenly distributed and incorporated into the flour. Form into small to medium clumps with your fingers.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8-inch square cake pan.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat together the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the sour cream, beginning and ending with the flour, beating until just incorporated.
• Spoon half of the cake batter (it will be very thick) into the prepared pan and smooth with an offset spatula. Dollop the sour cherry preserves on top and carefully smooth with the spatula. Spoon the remaining cake batter on top and smooth the top. Sprinkle on the crumb topping.
• Bake until the cake and topping are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan 20 minutes, then invert onto a plate; invert back onto a rack to cool completely.
• When the cake is cool, whisk together the confectioners' sugar and milk in a medium bowl until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the cake and let set.

SOUR CREAM CHERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 fareheight.
• Butter 2 8-inch cake pans (square or round, either works),and set aside.
• In a large bowl ( mixing bowl, if you have one ), cream butter and sugar together until well mixed. Add eggs one at a time,beating well.Add sour cream, and mix well.
• In a small bowl, mix the flour,baking powder,baking soda,and salt together.
• Add the dry ingredients to the butter mix, and mix well.the batter will be stiff.
• Stir in the vanilla, lemon zest, and cherry preserves.
• Spread batter evenly in the pans, and place in oven.
• Bake 20-30 mins, or until a toothpick comes stuck into the center comes out clean.
• When cooled, a confectioners sugar & lemon juice icing goes very well. Enjoy.

SOUR CHERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together all ingredients for cherry layer EXCEPT cherries. Cover and refrigerate.
• In another small bowl, combine flour, sugar, and cinnamon for topping. Cut in butter until mixture becomes coarse crumbs. Cover and refrigerate.
• Place all ingredients for dough in bread machine pan in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Program for dough cycle and start.
• Just before dough is complete, grease a 9-inch square baking pan or a 10-inch pie plate.
• Once dough is complete (it will be quite soft and sticky), scrape dough into prepared pan. Dust hands with flour and press dough into pan evenly.
• Carefully spread sour cream mixture over dough, then distribute cherries over sour cream. Sprinkle crumb topping evenly over cherries.
• Place pan on rack in center of cold oven. Turn oven on to 375 degrees F, and bake until edges turn golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean (approximately 35 minutes).
• Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack for about 20 minutes. Serve warm.
• MORE NOTES: this coffeecake freezes well. Place in refrigerator overnight or on countertop, unwrapped. Reheat for 12 minutes in a 300 degree F oven.

CHERRY RIPPLE SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• To prepare streusel: Lightly spoon whole wheat flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife.
• Combine whole wheat flour and next 4 ingredients.
• Add concentrate and 1 tablespoon oil; stir until crumbly -- set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• To prepare cake, coat a 9-inch tube pan with cooking spray.
• Combine 1/4 cup oil and melted butter in a medium bowl.
• Add granulated sugar, vanilla, egg, and egg white; beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.
• Lightly spoon all-purpose flour in dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
• Combine all-purpose flour and next 3 ingredients in a large bowl.
• Add flour mixture and sour cream alternately to egg mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Stir in cherries.
• Spoon half of batter into prepared pan; sprinkle with half of streusel.
• Spoon in remaining batter; top with remaining streusel.
• Bake at 350°F for 55 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; run a knife around outside edge.
• Cool completely in pan.

CHERRY SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Combine the streusel topping ingredients together in a bowl in the order listed. Stir together with a fork until well blended and set aside.
• preheat the oven to 350. Grease a 10" tube pan with removable bottom (angel food cake pan). Then sprinkle a couple of spoonfuls of flour into it, rotating the pan and shaking the flour around bottom and sides. Discard any extra flour.
• In a small saucepan, bring the dried cherries and brandy (or liquor or choice) to a boil over high heat. When it is boiling, cover the pan, remove from heat. Let stand 20-30 minutes, until cherries are tender. Then drain excess brandy off. Set cherries aside.
• Beat sugar and butter in a standing mixer or with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Beat in sour cream and vanilla.
• Add the 3 cups of flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Beat at low speed just until blended. Stir in cherries with danish whisk or wooden spoon.
• Spoon half the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle half the streusel topping over it. Dollop the remaining batter over the streusel and smooth it out with the back of a spoon. It helps if the spoon is damp, it sticks less. The top with the remaining streusel.
• Bake for 1 hour or until a wooden skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a rack for at least 10 minutes. Loosen the cake from the sides and remove the center of pan, with the cake, to a rack. Using a knife, loosen the cake from the bottom and center. I just cut the cake out, but if you want a presentation, you can use a clean towel, draped over the top of the streusel, carefully inverting off the pan, then placing on a cake plate or platter. Serve cool or warm.

SOUR CHERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

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